VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 523 606
Rank change year-on-year +68 +83 +159
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 93 62 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.95% 0.48% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 47 61
10th Percentile £503 £325 £410
25th Percentile £525 £433 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £513
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -1.46% +10.22%
75th Percentile £650 £556 £575
90th Percentile £689 £609 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £519 £488
% change year-on-year +15.66% +6.41% +7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,836 12,904 15,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.88% 29.80% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,081 8,005 10,098
10th Percentile £275 £310 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £704 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 1,099 741
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.12 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.65 £40.94 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.47% -26.23% +24.72%
75th Percentile £59.00 £64.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.30 £43.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -41.16% -21.19% +55.89%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Daily rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Hourly rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +81 88 £600 +17.94% 46
UK excluding London +77 84 £600 +15.66% 44
South West +66 47 £580 +9.18% 4
Work from Home +45 19 £556 +11.81% 12
South East +32 15 £650 +30.00% 24
North of England +6 12 £500 +47.06% 8
Yorkshire +10 7 £500 +51.52% 6
Midlands +17 5 £695 -2.53% 2
West Midlands +12 5 £695 -2.53% 1
North West +7 5 £438 +7.03% 2
London +34 4 £600 +33.33% 6
East of England - 3 £540 - 3
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (23.66%) Confluence
2 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.08%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.05%) Azure
2 10 (10.75%) PaaS
2 10 (10.75%) SaaS
3 7 (7.53%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.30%) OneDrive
5 3 (3.23%) AWS
5 3 (3.23%) GitHub
6 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.15%) IaaS
6 2 (2.15%) OCI
6 2 (2.15%) Route 53
6 2 (2.15%) Serverless
6 2 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.08%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.20%) iSCSI
2 13 (13.98%) VSAN
3 11 (11.83%) Fibre Channel
3 11 (11.83%) Firewall
4 10 (10.75%) PBX
4 10 (10.75%) VoIP
5 7 (7.53%) DNS
6 5 (5.38%) BGP
6 5 (5.38%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (5.38%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (5.38%) DMVPN
6 5 (5.38%) Network Security
6 5 (5.38%) OSPF
6 5 (5.38%) SAN
6 5 (5.38%) VXLAN
7 3 (3.23%) DHCP
8 2 (2.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (2.15%) FTP
8 2 (2.15%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.08%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (23.66%) JIRA
2 18 (19.35%) Git
3 17 (18.28%) Jenkins
4 11 (11.83%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 23 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.75%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.38%) Legal
5 4 (4.30%) Finance
6 2 (2.15%) Local Government
6 2 (2.15%) Military
7 1 (1.08%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (19.35%) Architect
2 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (13.98%) Infrastructure Architect
3 13 (13.98%) VMware Architect
4 12 (12.90%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) VMware Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Network Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Database Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Consultant
9 3 (3.23%) Lead
9 3 (3.23%) VMware Consultant
10 2 (2.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.83%) Flash
1 11 (11.83%) REST
2 10 (10.75%) SOAP
3 5 (5.38%) Spine.js
4 2 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Clustering
2 11 (11.83%) Data Centre
3 10 (10.75%) Blackberry
3 10 (10.75%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.23%) PKI
6 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) Replication
6 2 (2.15%) SCADA
7 1 (1.08%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (43.01%) Windows
2 32 (34.41%) Windows Server
3 27 (29.03%) Linux
4 15 (16.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (7.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (5.38%) Unix
7 5 (5.38%) VMS
8 4 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (2.15%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.08%) SUSE
10 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.78%) Validation
2 33 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (33.33%) NsoIT
4 29 (31.18%) Agile
5 28 (30.11%) Service Management
6 26 (27.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (27.96%) System Testing
7 18 (19.35%) Configuration Management
7 18 (19.35%) High Availability
7 18 (19.35%) Network Virtualisation
8 17 (18.28%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (13.98%) Critical Thinking
9 13 (13.98%) Migration
10 12 (12.90%) Waterfall
11 11 (11.83%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (11.83%) Power Management
11 11 (11.83%) Reverse Engineering
12 10 (10.75%) Commercial Awareness
12 10 (10.75%) Customer Requirements
12 10 (10.75%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.11%) Python
2 27 (29.03%) PowerShell
3 16 (17.20%) SQL
4 11 (11.83%) Bash
5 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 68 (73.12%) Security Cleared
2 52 (55.91%) SC Cleared
3 38 (40.86%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (29.03%) CCNP
4 27 (29.03%) DV Cleared
5 25 (26.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (19.35%) MCSE
7 15 (16.13%) Oracle Certification
8 13 (13.98%) Degree
8 13 (13.98%) VCAP
9 12 (12.90%) RHCE
10 11 (11.83%) CCNA
10 11 (11.83%) OCA
10 11 (11.83%) VCP5
10 11 (11.83%) VCP6
11 10 (10.75%) Master's Degree
11 10 (10.75%) RHCA
12 6 (6.45%) Azure Certification
13 4 (4.30%) MCSA
13 4 (4.30%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.23%) GDPR
2 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.15%) NCSC
3 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
System Software
1 78 (83.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 30 (32.26%) vSphere
4 24 (25.81%) VMware NSX
5 14 (15.05%) Active Directory
6 11 (11.83%) NFS
7 5 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (4.30%) Docker
9 2 (2.15%) Hyper-V
9 2 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (43.01%) vCenter Server
2 27 (29.03%) Ansible
3 15 (16.13%) Terraform
4 11 (11.83%) PowerCLI
5 10 (10.75%) Progress Chef
5 10 (10.75%) Puppet
6 4 (4.30%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.30%) WSUS
7 3 (3.23%) vRealize
7 3 (3.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 3 (3.23%) VxRail
8 2 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.15%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.08%) Grafana
9 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 93 (100.00%) VMware
2 38 (40.86%) Cisco
3 29 (31.18%) Microsoft
4 18 (19.35%) Atlassian
5 16 (17.20%) Oracle
5 16 (17.20%) Veeam
6 14 (15.05%) F5
7 11 (11.83%) NetApp
7 11 (11.83%) Splunk
8 10 (10.75%) Avaya
8 10 (10.75%) Ericsson
8 10 (10.75%) Juniper
8 10 (10.75%) Nokia
8 10 (10.75%) Palo Alto
8 10 (10.75%) Ribbon
9 5 (5.38%) Dell
10 4 (4.30%) Citrix
10 4 (4.30%) Red Hat
11 3 (3.23%) SolarWinds
12 2 (2.15%) Fortinet